Courtney Kipps BMedSci, BMBS, MSc, MRCS, MRCGP, MFSEM

Dr Kipps is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine. He graduated in medicine from Nottingham University. Following basic surgical training, he studied for an MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine at the Royal London. He then went on to train as a sport and exercise medicine physician on the London Deanery’s specialist training programme during which he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study sport and exercise medicine overseas. This fellowship took him to Harvard and Stanford Universities in the USA as well as Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne in 2010/11. He was appointed to his current post in 2011.

Dr Kipps is a consultant in the English Institute of Sport and team doctor for Harlequins Rugby Club in the Aviva Premiership. He is the medical director of the London Triathlon, the Blenheim Triathlon and London’s Run To The Beat Half-marathon, as well as assistant medical director of the London Marathon. He is co-organiser of Marathon Medicine, the longest running conference on the medicine and science of endurance running internationally.